U.S.-Chile Cooperative Science Program: Interaction Between Metal Atoms and Carbon Clusters

该美洲项目奖将支持奥本大学的菲利普·舍夫林博士和智利康塞普西翁大学的加洛·卡德纳斯-特里维诺博士之间的合作研究。这项奖励将补充现有的两项NSF赠款。研究涉及碳团簇化学和金属原子化学两个领域。它将集中在使用金属原子作为碳团簇的捕捉剂和合成新的团簇材料。这些实验将涵盖广泛的研究领域，旨在为研究人员研究碳团簇化学提供一个框架。两所大学的互补研究工具将在促进合作方面发挥重要作用。新的基于团簇的材料将在奥本合成，而它们与金属原子的反应将在康塞普西翁进行。随着碳团簇化学和团簇的重要性日益显现，与金属原子化学的融合对化学的基础结构产生了潜在的影响。

This Americas Program award will support collaborative research between Dr. Philip Shevlin, Auburn University and Dr. Galo Cardenas-Trivino, University of Concepcion, Chile. This award will supplement two existing NSF grants. The research involves the area of carbon cluster chemistry and metal atom chemistry. It will focus on the use of metal atoms as trapping agents for carbon clusters and the synthesis of new cluster based materials. The experiments will cover a broad area of research and are designed to provide a framework for the investigators' approach to carbon cluster chemistry. The complementary research instrumentation at both universities will play a large part in facilitating the collaboration. The new cluster based materials will be synthesized in Auburn while their reactions with metal atoms will be carried out at Concepcion. With the emerging importance of carbon cluster chemistry and that of clusters in general, the merge with metal atom chemistry has a potential impact on the infrastructure of chemistry.